Can anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing. It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti’s lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin Puchner explores how ...(展开全部)

杰里米·里夫金，美国华盛顿特区的经济趋势基金会（Foundation on EcOnomic Trends）总裁，著有关于经济趋势、科学技术和文化方面的著作七部，被译成15种语言，其中《熵：一种新的世界观》、《时间大战》、《生物圈政治学》和《工作的终结》等书有广泛影响。

杰里米·里夫金，美国华盛顿特区的经济趋势基金会（Foundation on EcOnomic Trends）总裁，著有关于经济趋势、科学技术和文化方面的著作七部，被译成15种语言，其中《熵：一种新的世界观》、《时间大战》、《生物圈政治学》和《工作的终结》等书有广泛影响。

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing ...(展开全部)

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing ...(展开全部)

In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on...(展开全部)

In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on...(展开全部)

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditi...(展开全部)

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through the clever mix of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, everyone is a happy consumer. Bernard Marx seems alone in his discontent.</p>

Recorded Live - One Cassette Huxley narrates this 1956 radio dramatization of an excerpt from his best-known book, "Brave New World", with an original score composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann. Note: The inherent difficulities of live recordings and the age of some of the recordings can cause variations in the sound quality. ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963 British-bor...(展开全部)